Composite board.



P. J. NAGLE COMPOSITE BOARD.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. I917.

Patented Oct. 29, 1918.

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coMrosI'rE BOARD.

I Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented (lot. 29, 191%.

Application filed Februaryc, 1917. Serial No. 146,663.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER J. citizen of the United Rochester, in the NAGLE, a

county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Composite Boards, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to composite boards designed for making cigar boxes or other receptacles for holding tobacco articles of any kind, and an object of the invention is to provide a construction which will communicate to cigars and other tobacco articles an advantageous aroma and at the same time will not act deleteriously upon the tobacco articles.

To these and other ends, the invention consists of certain parts and combinations of parts all of whlch will be hereinafter described, the novel features being pointed out in the appended claims.

the drawings Figure 1 is a sectional view of the composite board formed of paper board and veneer; and

Fig. 2 is a like view of another embodiment formed of paper board.

Cigars are at present most generally packed in cedar boxes for the reason that it has been found that the aroma of cedar tends to improve the flavor of the cigars. With the decreasing supply of cedar-wood,- the cost of boxes therefrom increases so that there is an imperative demand fora box made from other material. The use of ordinary paper boxes is excluded because the cigars absorb, from the paper and the adhesives used in making the same, matter which .actsdeleteriously upon the cigars.

States, and resident of' According to this invention a composite board is provided which communicates to the cigars an advantageous aroma without affecting the cigars deleteriously.

The board is made of sheets in laminated form, the laminations of which are made from veneers of desirable woods, or ground wood pulp, or a combination of wood veneer and sheets of laminated pulp, A indicating the wood pulp sheets and B the veneer. These laminations are saturated with a composition com[prising licorice, cedar oil, a pure mineral coloring matter, and sugar, the sugar being employed for the purpose of causing the oil to mix with the other ingredients. The saturation takes place while the sheets are separated, and after they have been dried they are adhesively secured together under pressure. The adhesive is preferably a colorless gum, such as gum arabic, and a-weak flour paste compounded with licorice, cedar oil, a pure coloring matter, and sugar, the same compound that is employed for treating the sheets forming the laminations. After the laminated board is dried or cured, it is coated on one or both faces with the licorice and cedar oil compound above mentioned to simulate ordinary cedar wood, certain portions of the coated face being in darker streaks to imitate wood graining.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A board formed of a plurality of sheets each separately saturated with a compound containing cedar oil, sugar and licorice.

2. A board according to claim 1, in which the sheets are united by an adhesive containing cedar oil, sugar and licorice.

PETER J. NAGLE. 

